Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 16 August 2003 08:23 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 08:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > If yes, I think my only option is to somehow get my hands on > > an old, used Windows PC just to run this app. Under no > > circumstances will I tolerate Windows on my *real* comput

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-16 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:50:31 + Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > If yes, I think my only option is to somehow get my hands on an > old, used Windows PC just to run this app. Under no > circumstances will I tolerate Windows on my *real* computers in > our home. I *was* able to ins

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 16 August 2003 01:17 pm, Paul wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 16:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > I happen to own an old Thinkpad 380 with OS/2 on it, but > > *Derive* won't run under OS/2's emulation of Win3.1 either. > > Possibly I can get a copy of Win98, but I have no clue > > whatsoever

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-16 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 16:17, Paul wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 16:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > I happen to own an old Thinkpad 380 with OS/2 on it, but *Derive* > > won't run under OS/2's emulation of Win3.1 either. Possibly I > > can get a copy of Win98, but I have no clue whatsoever about > >

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-16 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 16:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > I happen to own an old Thinkpad 380 with OS/2 on it, but *Derive* > won't run under OS/2's emulation of Win3.1 either. Possibly I > can get a copy of Win98, but I have no clue whatsoever about > installing it - the Thinkpad can't boot off a CD ,

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 16 August 2003 11:09 am, Poogle wrote: > > you got me curious so I d/l the trial version of Derive, with > crossover office 1.3.5 it crashes with an error message about > VBOX, so no go there, but with Win4Lin (with Win98) it > installs properly and will open and close the included f

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-16 Thread Poogle
> On Friday 15 August 2003 17:37, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this > > great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had > > Windows on my box - and never will. > > > > But right now I have a problem : My oldest daughter just started >

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 15 August 2003 17:29, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Hmm... I think I'll give up. Maybe I can buy an old Windows-box > for my daughter just to run that app, because the info says > it'll run on everything (winders, that is) from 9.x to XP > (whatever that is). Have you considered VMWare or Win4L

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 15 August 2003 11:59 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: > RE Texas Insturments: They used to put out stuff that even > ran on a Commodore 64 ... but that was a while back. I'm > wondering if your "Derive" program is just an old script that > might be run with dosemu? No, I've tried that, of

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Josenildo Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 August 2003 17:37, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this > great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had > Windows on my box - and never will. > > But right now I have a problem :

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Lothian
Well mathplot is on mandrake http://sourceforge.net/search/ with the word math broaught up loads of things Try matching something simialar And then get your daugter to get her uni to switch lol Mike Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 11:47 pm, Michael Lothian wrote: Ah my uni us

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Harv Nelson
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 09:40 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: Hi Kaj, I'm having something of the same sorts of problems with a program I'm trying to run with wine. Try this "WinTools" GUI set up aid: http://www.franksworld.net/winetools/ It will make all the necessary directorie

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 15 August 2003 11:47 pm, Michael Lothian wrote: > Ah my uni uses Maple and Matlab for maths stuff > > But why not see if some of the free maths programs on linux > are the same type and have the same functions. > > Mike > Mike - what free programs ??? Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Lothian
Ah my uni uses Maple and Matlab for maths stuff But why not see if some of the free maths programs on linux are the same type and have the same functions. Mike Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 09:40 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: Hi Kaj, I'm having something of the same sorts of proble

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 15 August 2003 07:48 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2003 04:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > So I just installed wine and downloaded the *Derive* > > program. This seems to be a file called *setup.exe*. Then, I > > typed *wine setup.exe* and everything seemed OK until it as

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Harv Nelson
Hi Kaj, I'm having something of the same sorts of problems with a program I'm trying to run with wine. Try this "WinTools" GUI set up aid: http://www.franksworld.net/winetools/ It will make all the necessary directories and has an "Installer" of sorts. There is some additional education on t

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 August 2003 04:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > So I just installed wine and downloaded the *Derive* program. > This seems to be a file called *setup.exe*. Then, I typed *wine > setup.exe* and everything seemed OK until it ask me for a > *folder* for installation. The screen suggest stran

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 15 August 2003 06:52 pm, Frankie wrote: > When you install wine, it creates a fake enviroment for > windows apps. usually in /var/lib/wine > eg: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www]# cd /var/lib/wine > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wine]# ls > autoexec.bat config.sys My Documents/ Program Files/ > windows/

RE: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Frankie
/somedir make sense? now go forth and konquer. :-) regards Franki htmlfixit.com >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich >Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2003 4:37 AM >To: Newbie >Subject: [newbie] Wine question > >

[newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had Windows on my box - and never will. But right now I have a problem : My oldest daughter just started in college and her math teacher demands her to buy a program called *D

RE: [newbie] Wine Question

2002-01-29 Thread Franki
Behalf Of Trevor Rhodes Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2002 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wine Question On Thursday 17 January 2002 02:40, you wrote: > Which version of Wine are you running? > > I just installed the CodeWeavers installation and it works great. I&#x

Re: [newbie] Wine Question

2002-01-29 Thread Trevor Rhodes
On Thursday 17 January 2002 02:40, you wrote: > Which version of Wine are you running? > > I just installed the CodeWeavers installation and it works great. I've got that version installed and have downloaded a program I wish to install. It's a self installing exe. How do I accomplish the ins

Re: [newbie] Wine Question

2002-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 08:20 am, Rich wrote: > I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and, when I run a Windows application under > wine there's a warning message that it couldn't find xmessage and the > program may not run well (and they don't!). > > Where would I find xmessage? > > Rich X11R6-contri

Re: [newbie] Wine Question

2002-01-16 Thread Rich
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 10:40, Joe Wittmer wrote: > Hi Rich, > > Which version of Wine are you running? > > I just installed the CodeWeavers installation and it works great. But, you > do have to install the xmessage package. There is more on the web at: > > http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/

Re: [newbie] Wine Question

2002-01-16 Thread Joe Wittmer
Hi Rich, Which version of Wine are you running? I just installed the CodeWeavers installation and it works great. But, you do have to install the xmessage package. There is more on the web at: http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/help.php Read Item #6. GL Joe >I'm running Mandrake 8.1

[newbie] Wine Question

2002-01-16 Thread Rich
I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and, when I run a Windows application under wine there's a warning message that it couldn't find xmessage and the program may not run well (and they don't!). Where would I find xmessage? Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] WINE Question

2000-11-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 05:20 pm, Joe Morris wrote: > Okay, I just completed my wine.conf file and ran Adobe Acrobat > with it. I then decided to open up Astroship Evader. I typed in > the following: > > wine /mnt/win_c/Astroship Evader/Astroship Evader.exe What little I've used wine,

Re: [newbie] WINE Question

2000-11-08 Thread Stuart Foster
> I then decided to open up Astroship Evader. I typed in the following: > > wine /mnt/win_c/Astroship Evader/Astroship Evader.exe > > I then got the following: > > cannot find file "/mnt/win_c/Astroship" > > Obviously, it does like the spaces in the file names. Tell me, how do I > overcome this

[newbie] WINE Question

2000-11-08 Thread Joe Morris
Okay, I just completed my wine.conf file and ran Adobe Acrobat with it. I then decided to open up Astroship Evader. I typed in the following: wine /mnt/win_c/Astroship Evader/Astroship Evader.exe I then got the following: cannot find file "/mnt/win_c/Astroship" Obviously, it does like the sp